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I have watched this thread from time to time, and the discussion has been fascinating. Unfortunately, I have been too busy lately to put enough thought into a response, and ideally before wading into the discussion, I would like to re-read Shizune's story. However, thanks to a point that ProfAlliste...

I wouldn't know, I've never had bacon. "Everything depends on bacon." --The Great Gildersleeve, April 1, 1945 And back on topic... Not long after I first started reading "Katawa Shoujo," I had dreams involving cartoonish people with really big eyes, the music got into my head, a...

When I think of Female Kenji, I immediately think of the female college liberal meme, or at least a slightly modified version of it. I think you're on to something. I can imagine Female Kenji as a militant radical feminist who would be right at home in certain university gender studies departments....

I have noticed this thread for some time, but I decided to wait a while before responding to it. Sometimes, changes resulting from experiencing a work of art can take time to set in. I am old, cynical, and set in my ways, so it is highly unusual for one particular work of literature to fundamentally...

I am happy to see so much discussion on Shizune's story recently. Unfortunately, I have been busy with too many other things lately to wade into the fray, but I at least wanted to add something to the discussion. The existence of all of this discussion (and, in the other thread, heated debate) suppo...

Since Lilly's story has two endings, I suppose that one is considered "good" and the other is considered "bad," but the "bad" ending has a neutral feel to it, and I have seen it described as such. "Good," "bad," and "neutral" are relative t...

I suppose that it is time for me to add to this thread. I have been through all of the stories, although I have not been through every single ending yet. Rin's story is so complex that I wanted to go through it a second time, and I have just finished Act 1. The scene at the end of Act 1, with Hisao ...

I've been reading this thread since it was started, and I've been considering how I would formulate a response. Given that I have a strong educational background in literary studies, one would think that I would immediately be all over this question. However, in literature classes, we tend to spend ...

In my environement it is considered almost taboo to watch anime or play games like that. You are ofted laughted of and accused of being childlish. I haven't really got a friend that would hear me out and share my concerns. I feel alenated from everyone, because everybody seems so... plain. They are...

Drummodino - there seem to be many experiences like yours. I am a cynical and sometimes bitter old woman, and not exactly the target audience for most visual novels, but even I felt emotionally moved by "Katawa Shoujo." Perhaps my lifelong cynicism can be tempered somewhat by the knowledge...

Although this is my first visual novel, I have been reading interactive fiction (text adventures) since the early 1980s when I played Infocom games on my Atari 800. In the classic text adventures, there are numerous ways to die, and some of them are quite elaborate and humorous. (Of course, the clas...

Its funny because I found this game searching for hentai dating sims.... It is funny, and I'm glad "Katawa Shoujo" goes against people's expectations - in a very good way. I found it while searching the web for weird video games (hoping to find something funny), and I figured that its pri...

One of my favorite scenes in Act 1 inspired me to write a strange short story. Tonight, with the help of some tequila, I broke through the writer's block that was preventing me from writing it. Although this piece isn't typical of fan fiction, it probably falls within the broad umbrella of fan ficti...

All of the characters have complexities that are only developed fully if you follow their paths. When I first approached "Katawa Shoujo," there were characters that I didn't connect with and didn't particularly like. In my case, they were Misha and Shizune. They reminded me too much of ann...

This is interesting to consider. I am trying to imagine placing my personality in a teenage boy with a heart problem. Furthermore, high school is so far in the past for me that I sometimes struggle to remember just what it was like. "Katawa Shoujo" has helped remind me of that distant time...